TABLE 1.
Demographic and stroke related characteristics.
| Variables | Values |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | Median | IQR | Range | |
| Sample size | |||||
| Admission | 49 | - | - | - | - |
| Discharge | 41 | - | - | - | - |
| Age | - | - | 48 | 39–60 | - |
| Women | 25 | 51.02 | - | - | - |
| Type of stroke | - | ||||
| Infarction | 44 | 89.80 | - | - | - |
| Right CVA (Left hemiplegia) | 25 | 51.02 | - | - | - |
| Risk factors for stroke | - | ||||
| No known risk factor | 2 | 4.08 | - | - | - |
| Hypertension | 36 | 73.47 | - | - | - |
| Diabetes | 14 | 28.57 | - | - | - |
| Cholesterol | 6 | 12.24 | - | - | - |
| Smoking | 16 | 32.65 | - | - | - |
| Substance abuse | 3 | 6.12 | - | - | - |
| Opportunistic infections | 3 | 6.12 | - | - | - |
| HIV-1 infection | 9 | 18.37 | - | - | - |
| CD4 count, mdn (range) | - | - | 130 | - | 54–883 |
| Time (days) between stroke incident and admission, median (IQR) | - | - | 20 | 14–28 | - |
| Length of stay (days), median (IQR) | - | - | 53 | 46–60 | - |
Source: Hartley, T., Burger, M., Esterhuizen, T.M. & Inglis-Jassiem, G., 2020, ‘Functional outcome of stroke inpatients according to human immunodeficiency virus status: A feasibility study’, African Journal of Disability 9(0), a618. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v9i0.618
Mdn, median; IQR, interquartile range; n, number; CVA, cerebrovascular accident.